Improvement in car-couplings



A. G. PAGE. Crf Coupling.

Patented Nov. 28, 1865.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEG ALBERT G. PAGE, OF AUGUSTA, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-COUPLINGS.

Spcciiication forming part of Letters Patent N0. 5 l,209, dated November 28, 1865.

To all whom it may concern,-

Beit known that I, ALBERT G. PAGE, ot' Augusta, in the county of Kennebee and State of Maine, have invented an Improved Car- Goupling; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, ot' which- Figure l is a top View, Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 3, a vertical and longitudinal seetion, and Fig. 4, a horizontal and longitudinal section, of it.

In such drawings, A denotes a draw-bar ot' a railway-carriage, it being suitably chambered for the reception of the operative parts of the mechanism to be described.

Tithin the draw-bar are two jaws or hooked arms, B B, which are formed and arranged with respect to one another, and are hinged or jointed to a carrier or slider, C, in manner as shown in the drawings. In rear ot' this slider is a cylindrical india-rubber spring, D, which rests against the head a ot' the carrier and also against an abutment, b, formed in the draw-bar. A hand-lever, E, ,passes through the carrier and upward out ot' the draw-bar. This lever works against a stop-catch, d, fixed on the upper side ot' the said draw-bar and formed as represented in Fig. l.

The jaw-levers are formed with openingcams e e and closing-cams] f, arranged on them and with respect to their pins g h as represented, such pins being inserted in the draw-bar.

On taking hold of the longer arm of the lever and moving it in such manner as to produce a recession of the jaw-levers, the said jaw-levers will be caused, through the agency of the cams e e, to open or move asunder at their hooked ends. During an advance of the levers, which will be produced by the spring, the ams ff, acting against the two external pins, will et't'ect the closing ot' thejaws.

During the advance ot' a car-shackling link into the mouth 7c of the bunter or draw-bar such link, by pressure against the hooks ofthe jaws, will force thejaws backward, they being opened apart in the meantime. As soon as the link may have passed the hooks the spring will be free to advance the jaws, and during such advance they will close together and engage the link.

A link-abutment, m, is placed between the jaw-levers for the link to bear against as well as to bring up against while in the act of be ing thrown into the draw-bar.

l am aware that a ear-coupling has been provided with hooked jawdevers, and therefore do not claim the same, my invention being limited to my improvement thereon.

What I claim as my invention is- The combination and arrangement of the spring D, the carrier O, the pins g It fi, cams e eff, abutment m, aud lever E, and stop-catch d, as applied to the hooked jaw-levers and the draw-bar, as and to operate as, specied.

ALBERT G. PAGE.7

Witnesses:

SAMUEL TI'rooMB, LEWIS C. DUNTON. 

